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Combining multimodal data is a key issue in a wide range of machine learning tasks, including many remote sensing problems. In Earth observation, early multimodal data fusion methods were based on specific neural network architectures and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Romain Thoreau , Jessie Levillain , Dawa Derksen

Multimodal learning (MML) aims to jointly exploit the common priors of different modalities to compensate for their inherent limitations. However, existing MML methods often optimize a uniform objective for different modalities, leading to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Yunfeng Fan , Wenchao Xu , Haozhao Wang , Junxiao Wang , Song Guo

Cross-modal representation learning has become a new normal for bridging the semantic gap between text and visual data. Learning modality agnostic representations in a continuous latent space, however, is often treated as a black-box…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jiaxin Wu , Chong-Wah Ngo , Wing-Kwong Chan , Zhijian Hou

Multimodal data encountered in real-world scenarios are typically of low quality, with noisy modalities and missing modalities being typical forms that severely hinder model performance and robustness. However, prior works often handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sijie Mai , Shiqin Han , Haifeng Hu

Addressing missing modalities and limited labeled data is crucial for advancing robust multimodal learning. We propose Robult, a scalable framework designed to mitigate these challenges by preserving modality-specific information and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Duy A. Nguyen , Abhi Kamboj , Minh N. Do

Learning skills by imitation is a promising concept for the intuitive teaching of robots. A common way to learn such skills is to learn a parametric model by maximizing the likelihood given the demonstrations. Yet, human demonstrations are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Maximilian Xiling Li , Onur Celik , Philipp Becker , Denis Blessing , Rudolf Lioutikov , Gerhard Neumann

Multimodal machine learning, mimicking the human brain's ability to integrate various modalities has seen rapid growth. Most previous multimodal models are trained on perfectly paired multimodal input to reach optimal performance. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ronghao Lin , Qiaolin He , Sijie Mai , Ying Zeng , Aolin Xiong , Li Huang , Yap-Peng Tan , Haifeng Hu

One of the main challenges for feature representation in deep learning-based classification is the design of appropriate loss functions that exhibit strong discriminative power. The classical softmax loss does not explicitly encourage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-24 Xiong Zhou , Xianming Liu , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xin Gao , Xiangyang Ji

We consider the problem of learning from training data obtained in different contexts, where the underlying context distribution is unknown and is estimated empirically. We develop a robust method that takes into account the uncertainty of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-18 Muhammad Osama , Dave Zachariah , Petre Stoica

Multimodal learning often relies on aligning representations across modalities to enable effective information integration, an approach traditionally assumed to be universally beneficial. However, prior research has primarily taken an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Wanlong Fang , Tianle Zhang , Alvin Chan

Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (TMLE) is increasingly used for doubly robust causal inference, but how missing data should be handled when using TMLE with data-adaptive approaches is unclear. Based on the Victorian Adolescent Health…

Training a multimodal network is challenging and it requires complex architectures to achieve reasonable performance. We show that one reason for this phenomena is the difference between the convergence rate of various modalities. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-13 Aya Abdelsalam Ismail , Mahmudul Hasan , Faisal Ishtiaq

Multimodal federated learning (MFL) is a distributed framework for training multimodal models without uploading local multimodal data of clients, thereby effectively protecting client privacy. However, multimodal data is commonly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Xuefeng Han , Wen Chen , Jun Li , Ming Ding , Qingqing Wu , Kang Wei , Xiumei Deng , Yumeng Shao , Qiong Wu

Multimodal machine learning has achieved remarkable progress in a wide range of scenarios. However, the reliability of multimodal learning remains largely unexplored. In this paper, through extensive empirical studies, we identify current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Huan Ma. Qingyang Zhang , Changqing Zhang , Bingzhe Wu , Huazhu Fu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Qinghua Hu

Multimodal learning aims to imitate human beings to acquire complementary information from multiple modalities for various downstream tasks. However, traditional aggregation-based multimodal fusion methods ignore the inter-modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Heqing Zou , Meng Shen , Chen Chen , Yuchen Hu , Deepu Rajan , Eng Siong Chng

Multi-modal learning relates information across observation modalities of the same physical phenomenon to leverage complementary information. Most multi-modal machine learning methods require that all the modalities used for training are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Vandana Rajan , Alessio Brutti , Andrea Cavallaro

Missing values arise in most real-world data sets due to the aggregation of multiple sources and intrinsically missing information (sensor failure, unanswered questions in surveys...). In fact, the very nature of missing values usually…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-04 Alexis Ayme , Claire Boyer , Aymeric Dieuleveut , Erwan Scornet

Identifying statistical regularities in solutions to some tasks in multi-task reinforcement learning can accelerate the learning of new tasks. Skill learning offers one way of identifying these regularities by decomposing pre-collected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yiding Jiang , Evan Zheran Liu , Benjamin Eysenbach , Zico Kolter , Chelsea Finn

Learning from human feedback has shown to be a useful approach in acquiring robot reward functions. However, expert feedback is often assumed to be drawn from an underlying unimodal reward function. This assumption does not always hold…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-20 Vivek Myers , Erdem Bıyık , Nima Anari , Dorsa Sadigh

Classification of social media data is an important approach in understanding user behavior on the Web. Although information on social media can be of different modalities such as texts, images, audio or videos, traditional approaches in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-08 Chi Thang Duong , Remi Lebret , Karl Aberer